June 12th

Blessed Eskil

Blessed · Common of Missionary Martyrs · Södermanland, Sweden · d. c. 1080

In Sweden, Saint Eskil, bishop and martyr, who, English by birth and ordained bishop by his teacher Saint Sigfrid, gave himself zealously amid many labors for Christ among the pagans in the province of Södermanland, by whom he was indeed stoned to death.

Latin Original

n Suécia, sancti Eskílli, epíscopi et mártyris, qui, génere anglus, a sancto Sigfrído magístro suo epíscopus ordinátus, in Sudermánnia provincia multis labóribus pro Christo apud pagános impénse se trádidit, a quibus vero lapidátus est.